| 单词 | bastide town |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbastide town 3. A medieval fortified town or village founded as a new settlement, typically laid out on a grid plan around a central square. Also attributive, esp. in bastide town.Most closely associated with southern and south-western France, where the earliest examples were established in the mid twelfth cent. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > fortified or defended town wall-town1488 bourg1536 castle-town1646 bastide1881 1881 Illustr. London News 22 Jan. 89/2 He [sc. King Edward I] at once purchased the site from the Abbot of Meaux, and laid out a ‘Bastide’, or regularly planned town, constructed with a public square and parallel streets crossing one another, in the rectangular style of a Roman military station. 1908 T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 61 Bonaguil-Montpazier, the most perfect of the bastide-towns (those chess-board planned towns of the xiii and xiv cents. in Aquitaine). 1989 P. Mayle Year in Provence (1990) 198 A region steeped in history and natural wonders, from the caves at Padirac to the remains of the bastides. 2018 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 5 June 14 The village has been designed to look like the traditional historic centre of a medieval ‘bastide’, or fortified town, commonplace in the Landes area, so that patients do not feel disorientated. < as lemmas |
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